The ultimate smartphone holder for your active lifestyle, texthookTM allows you to stay in touch while on the go.
The patent-pending design tightly secures your smartphone while still providing access to the touchscreen or keyboard. With the touch of a finger, you can text, talk or e-mail, while exercising, shopping and more. With an easy strap-on design, texthookTM quickly fastens to the handlebar of your stroller, exercise equipment, shopping cart or bicycle.
Baby monitors used to be fairly basic devices. They’d transmit noises from a transmitter to the receiver and you’d be able to tell whether your precious was cooing or crying. Welcome to the next evolution of the baby monitor, where your receiver can be any web connected device, including your iPod, iPad, eBook or computer. The Withings Smart Baby Monitor features a 3MP camera which transmits to any connected device, allowing parents to remotely check in on their progeny. They can access both video and audio data, as well as use the inbuilt microphone in the monitor to soothe their child remotely.
What could possibly come out of a partnership with Crayola—a favorite brand from many children’s childhoods—and Griffin—a technology accessory creator? A way to change the way children draw and learn. Through their partnership, these two companies have created Crayola ColorStudio HD. “Crayola ColorStudio HD is an entirely new digital play experience, coupling a multi-activity drawing application for iPad (Crayola ColorStudio HD App) with a custom-built digital stylus, called Crayola iMarker,” says the press release. In many ways, it’s both good, bad, and interesting for children of today if you ask me.
A national survey shows 49 percent of parents plan to give children 12 and younger electronic gifts this holiday season. But parents need the right resources to make sure their kids are learning on that technology. Leslie Rotenberg, senior vice president of PBS, gives KSL parents some tips.
Rotenberg says PBS commissioned research with children and the media and found handheld and touch screen devices offer kids extraordinary potential for learning. The most important thing is what applications they put on that technology.
It’s not easy to write about a $50 device that can easily be replaced, and improved, by a $0.99 iPhone app, but I’ll try. The Onaroo is pegged as a PBA or ‘personal baby assistant’ and is essentially designed to serve as a data gathering PDA for households with a new arrival. It makes tracking info like nursing and sleep schedules, bottles, pumping, diapers, medicine, temperature, and growth slightly easier than with a coiled notebook and pen. But it’s clear advantage is its ability to display graphs of that data over time which is handy for doctor visits, or freaking out those overly paranoid parents.
Looking for cute books for your kids to enjoy on the iPad? The iStory interactive children’s books from Apps of All Nations contains quite a collection.
The iStory books encourage kids to have fun and spend time reading with each interactive page they turn. Kids can listen to stories being read or choose to read the stories themselves. They can then tap objects on the page to discover the many interactive features “hidden” throughout each book. Continue reading →
Would a Kajeet cell phone help your child to stay in touch with you, learn how to manage their money while having more fun? It could. And what about you? Would you like to be able to check where your children are without having to call them up all the time? Would you like an easy way to manage your child’s cell phone usage? With Kajeet, you can.
If you’ve got an 8-12 year-old child in your family then you’ve probably thought about whether to provide them with a cell phone, and what cell phone to choose.
If you decide to go ahead then you’ve got a neat option available. The cell phone service is designed to be easy to use and manage for parents as well as their children. It’s advertised not only as a cell phone, but also as a way of teaching your children to manage money.
The iPad may be the tablet of choice for celebribabies and everyday parents alike, but Barnes & Noble is trying to get in on some of the tablet action with its new Nookcolor. Coming with a nice 7-inch touchscreen, the Nookcolor is a fraction of the cost of a pricey iPad at $249, so it’s a great choice for budget-minded parents and still allows you and your little ones to read together, even letting them interact with the pictures on the screen — something you can’t get with a traditional paperback. Continue reading →
Hey parents, here’s a way for you to monitor your kid’s mobile phone activity: “Parents can now use SafetyWeb to monitor their child’s mobile phone activity from anywhere by logging into SafetyWeb.com, or by using the SafetyWeb mobile application for iPhone and Android.”
Kids, you might want to be aware of this, too. It might save some, well, clumsy conversations later on at home. Just a heads-up from a guy who’s been there.
SafetyWeb is an example of Web-based parental control software, “especially meant for parents to monitor their kids and teens’ online and their mobile phone activities to protect them from cyberbullying, sexting, stalking and other dangers,” according to SafetyWeb officials.
